Quantitative constraints on the origin of stratigraphic architecture at passive continental margins: Oligocence sedimentation in New Jersey, U.S.A

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 227-245

  Pekar, Stephen F ^a   Christie Blick, Nicholas ^a   Miller, Kenneth G ^b   Kominz, Michelle A ^c  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EUSTACY; OLIGOCENE; PASSIVE MARGIN; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; UNCONFORMITY; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY;

UNITED STATES; NEW JERSEY; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARCHITECTURE; BOREHOLES; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MICA; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS;

LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGIN; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; SEDIMENTATION PATTERN; SEQUENCE ARCHITECTURES; SILICICLASTIC SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE; TRANSGRESSIVE SYSTEMS TRACTS;

SEDIMENTS;

EID: 0037358165     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/090402730227     Document Type: Article

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